High and mighty! Rapper son whose parents are accused of buying their daughter's way into college appears outside their Park Avenue apartment smoking a blunt to insist the scandal has been 'blown out of proportion'

Gregory Abbott and wife Marcia accused as part of college admissions scandal

Allegedly paid to have daughter's SAT and ACT grades altered to get into Duke

Brother Malcolm, who styles himself as a rapper, defended family Wednesday

He appeared outside their Park Avenue apartment while smoking cannabis to say the charges had been 'blown out of proportion' and brag about latest album

A wealthy New York couple charged as part of the college admissions scandal will be hoping their lawyer offers up a better defense than their son after he appeared outside their apartment to rubbish the charges while smoking a large blunt.

Malcolm Abbott, a self-styled rapper, accused the FBI of 'blowing this whole thing out of proportion' as he defended parents Gregory and Marcia over claims they effectively paid to get their daughter into college.

Malcolm, who raps under the name Billa, also took the opportunity to plug his latest album to journalists in between puffs on his suspicious-looking cigarette.

Getting high: Malcolm Abbott appeared outside his parents' apartment to rubbish the charges while smoking a large blunt

Lighting up: Malcolm, a self-styled rapper, accused the FBI of 'blowing this whole thing out of proportion'. He is seen here with his brother

He defended parents Gregory and Marcia over claims they effectively paid to get their daughter into college

Malcolm also took the opportunity to plug his latest album to journalists in between puffs on the blunt

The album is called 'Cheese and Crackers' and features a song called If I Lost My Money

Malcolm is the son of a wealthy New York couple charged as part of the college admissions scandal

The album is called 'Cheese and Crackers', Malcolm said, and features a song called If I Lost My Money.

'I believe everyone has a right to go to college, man,' he told a reporter for the New York Post, though admitted he didn't go himself.

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Malcolm then disappeared into the Park Avenue apartment, which overlooks the Met Museum, before reemerging with a man who had earlier claimed to be his brother.

On Tuesday, that man told the post that his parents 'got roped into [this by] some guy who f***ing cheated them.'

Gregory Abbott, 68, founder and chairman of a food and beverage packaging company, and his wife Marcia Abbott, 59, were named in Tuesday's affidavit along with 50 high-profile names accused of buying their way into prestigious colleges.

Malcolm Abbott, a self-styled rapper who makes music under the name Billa, defended his parents against charges they paid to get their daughter into college. He's seen at right with Peter Brant Jr, left

Malcolm said charges against father Gregory (pictured) had been 'blown out of proportion' as he smoked a blunt in front of journalists outside the family's Park Avenue apartment

Gregory (pictured) and wife Marcia allegedly paid $175,000 to alter their daughter's SAT scores so she could go to Duke

The couple, who have homes in New York City and Aspen, Colorado, allegedly paid a total of $125,000 to have someone alter their daughter's ACT and SAT test scores so she could gain entrance to Duke University.

According to the affidavit, the Abbott Family Foundation made a 'charitable donation' of $50,000 to KWF in April 2018, four days before the Abbotts' daughter took the ACT in Los Angeles.

The exam was proctored by a fixer identified in court documents as Cooperating Witness 2, who corrected her answers after she finished, prosecutors say.

She received a score of 35 out of 36 on that exam.

A couple months later, Marcia Abbott called Singer about paying to arrange someone to take SAT subject tests for her daughter. That conversation was intercepted by investigators under a court-ordered wire tap, the affidavit states.

Singer told her: '[Gregory Abbott] would have to be willing to pay for it,' to which she replied: 'Yeah, well he can donate, I mean, whatever the donations are.'

They agreed on a price of $75,000 during that call as the SAT subject tests are significantly more challenging than the ACT.

Marcia Abbott contacted Singer again in September 2018 to arrange for someone to take the math and literature subject tests for her daughter because she thought she hadn't done well enough taking the tests on her own.

In a wiretapped phone call, Marcia Abbott said: 'She’s convinced that she bombed the lit because she was too tired, so … And [Duke University] told us they didn’t want anything below a 750.'

Malcolm (left) also told reporters that 'everyone has the right to go to college, man' before plugging his new CD

Singer then tells Marcia Abbott that she was smart to have someone fix her daughter's ACT because she would have received a score of 23 without the fixer's help.

Offended, Marcia Abbott says that her daughter had struggled because she was sick with mono at the time.

The Abbott Family Foundation made a purported donation of $75,000 to the KWF charity days later, the affidavit states.

A fixer amended the daughter's answers on her subject tests after she took them, and she ended up with an 800 out of 800 on math and 710 out of 800 on literature.

On a later phone call, the fixer indicated that she would have scored in the mid-600s without their help.

Gregory Abbott was seen leaving federal court in New York City after presentment on Tuesday.